nothing about the disappearance of monk home way the first chinese citizen to become head of interpol state controlled media is so far not reporting this story either and any mention of his name on social media is being deleted that is i think a reflection of just how sensitive this cases but in hong kong the south china morning post newspaper which has connections to the chinese government has been offering more information it says sources have told them that mung was taken away after his plane landed in beijing it's believed he left france on september the twenty fifth and that he was taken away to an undisclosed destination and that he was now quote under investigation although it's not specified what he's being investigated for now before monk took up his position with interpol in two thousand and sixteen he had been a vice minister of the public security bureau that made him a very powerful man now some important context his boss had been

a man who was jailed three years ago for corruption joe young kang had been basically the j. edgar hoover of chinese politics the securities are of china and then in two thousand and sixteen another vice minister of public security was also jailed for corruption so there is a pattern emerging it is quite possible the monk found himself on the wrong side of the political divide in china at a time when president xi jinping is intensifying his anti corruption crackdown. questions are being raised about the future of press freedom in hong kong after the authorities there refused to renew a visa for financial times journalists it's a rare decision in a chinese city that takes pride on its freedoms the newspaper's asia editor victim mallett chaired a talk by a pro independent sacks of s. in august mallett decided to go ahead with moderating the talk despite objections

from the government as well as chinese foreign ministry a christian is editorial director of hong kong free press a nonprofit online newspaper he says the case sets a dangerous precedent on press freedom in the region. it was a very first time at least for reason moment that we heard of a journalist being not able to be set renewed in hong kong there were cases of people who were not able to get into but never the case of a journalist who has been on being more or less expose from. being main cone of this is that during the talk and before or before to talk the activists party was completely be all the talk is so was legal what whatever mr bout mullet what's the go so that the government has to explain what is still legal

ground for not renewing this is but the government has said it will not usually not comment on individual cases so we will probably never happen official what was the reason. al-jazeera including where is jamal khashoggi human rights groups call for saudi arabia to verify the location of the missing jet. how that typhoon not a tropical storm is moving rapidly this is central circulation it hits busan already south korea but the cloud of course the north breeze the rain band is mostly there not entirely to the north going pretty quickly across the sea of japan so if i take daytime forecast the sunday the chances are the circulation will be a catching nordenholz i'm sure having whipped through elsewhere as

a whole college is at risk because the amount of rain still the could fall out of the system is considerable but leaves behind fine weather temperatures still quite high as well except he ones really very high in tokyo but still twenty two in beijing the cold having been kept to the north was about plus one degrees by the time we get to monday still could be raining in western harder but the circulation has gone it's not quite as hot in tokyo now if we had sas and really go back of the chart of the picture is still a relatively dry warm if you're in such wrong all looking up into the balance and then you'll see the change of season otherwise it's fine twenty six in shanghai thirty want to hong kong humidity not particularly high for any static situation to be honest and really speaking dry there are showers through the philippines through malaysia pretty well scattered unfortunately they still do threaten.

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issued new warnings about the possible outbreak of disease more than a week after a devastating tsunami and earthquake struck the island. rescue workers there are continuing to find more bodies and body parts the official death toll now stands at sixteen hundred and fifty. u.s. president donald trump's pick for the supreme court has now released cleared a procedural vote in the senate a final vote on brett kavanaugh as confirmation is expected later on saturday the republicans say an f.b.i. investigation didn't find any evidence to support sexual misconduct allegations against. police in france are investigating the disappearance of the president of interpol the international policing agency among the way hasn't been heard from since he flew home to china late last month he was china's vice minister of public security before he joined interpol. saudi arabia has offered to

allow turkey to search its consulate in istanbul in order to look for the prominent saudi journalist. mr went missing three days ago after he entered the consulate crown prince mohammed bin sound man says saudi arabia has nothing to hide but rights groups are calling on riyadh to verify his whereabouts jamal reports. the site outside the saudi arabian consulate in istanbul resembles a crime scene more than it does a diplomatic mission police have cordoned off the entire area around the building monitoring anyone who enters or exits three days have passed since renowned journalist jamal khashoggi went missing after entering the concert it's a process paperwork on friday photojournalists and human rights activists gathered to demand his release they believe that the saudi authorities kidnapped him and are either holding him hostage inside the building or have secretly sent him abroad

manually don't know what it's like that in general is what he wants is the freedom of democracy he entered the building of the consulate he has to get out of there safe and sound the turkish government has to take action and take care of democracy because tech is sovereignty has been violated. he has written a great deal about human rights abuses carried out by his country's government since the rise of crown prince mohammed bin sandman he's a regular columnist for the washington post it published friday's edition with a blank section where she's writing would have appeared. his fiance spoke to our over the phone about what's happened last tuesday. went into the cancellation i was wasting the till the appointment was at one pm after a few hours no one came to me they were supposed to come and get a phone from me no one came i went to the door and asked security it was almost three pm security told me no one must decide and that maybe i didn't pay attention

when jamal lifts i called the consulate a saudi man answered and he told me the closest and that no one is inside and. as far as continue to roll over her safety there is also concern about the diplomatic fallout could occur as a result of his disappearance if indeed it is proven that the saudis have kidnapped him and or taken him out of the country which would mean that your progress either to use its missions as detention centers with little or no respect for the sovereignty of other countries would have to respond. to stumble the u.s. secretary of state is in japan coordinating strategy towards north korea after missing the prime minister shinzo of a like pompei is due to travel to pyongyang for more talks the u.s. wants progress on denuclearization which it says the north koreans agreed to when kim jong un and donald trump met in singapore earlier this year and they've been

a number of high profile cases in the u.s. in recent years where white police officers of shot and killed young black men yet few police officers are ever convicted after these incidents but on friday a jury in chicago returned a different result as john hendren now reports. i guess it's the verdict that for weeks put an anxious and divided city on edge we've been hearing the band day and back guilty of second degree. a white chicago police officer jason van dyke was found guilty of the killing of a black teen a crime that carries a sentence of up to twenty years in prison then sixteen times. but i've heard that there's more than one for each bullet he fired into a seventeen year old look juan mcdonald in two thousand and fourteen van dyke was convicted of aggravated battery with a firearm the teen was armed with

a knife later found closed and shown walking away on police video it was vandyke who emptied the chamber the only officer to fire when video of the killing emerged a year later protesters filled the streets the trial featured teary sometimes testy testimony from the first chicago police officer charged with murder in decades his attorney mounted in impassioned argument and one drop that. he'd be here today but prosecutors argue that vandyke had planned to shoot before he got out of his car why mcdonald was never going to walk home that. the defendant did i did that on the way to the scene chicago which still bears some scars from the infamous one nine hundred sixty eight riots was prepared for an outcry the city's twelve thousand police officers were on alert many of them already deployed around the city as protesters began to gather at city hall officers had

a one hundred fifty page contingency plan demonstrators had planned to shut chicago down a vandyke were not convicted instead they celebrated. everywhere across the country we see the police injustice is happening the buck stops here chicago and we pray and we hope that this is some inspiration and encouraged me now only to the city of chicago where all cities across. the verdict put the city and police on notice that the residents or chicago will no longer simply accept police shootings of young black men john hendren al jazeera chicago venezuelans are once again out on the streets protesting the march in support of the government was organized by the ruling bolivarian socialist party others protested against nicolas maduro as rule they say president daughters mismanagement

of the economy has led to shortages of food running water electricity and medicine tens of thousands of venezuelans have already fled to neighboring countries and voters in latin america's largest democracy will be heading to the polls on sunday it's one of the most divisive elections in brazil since the end of the military dictatorship moment three decades ago left in america editor lucien human has more on fernando had that a leftist candidate is facing an uphill battle. this son of lebanese immigrants to brazil could not be more different than the left wing legend whose place he is running for president of latin america's largest country less than a month ago former south america nanda her dad was leasing national us running mate a soft spoken academic by the side of the popular and charismatic former president but with lula now barred from running as he serves a twelve year sentence for corruption and her dad has been forced to step into his

shoes if he can. we have received a mission from president lula mission to look into the eyes of the people and remind them of the time when together we built a very different country. the dad was listened to cation minister and promises to return to the days when the workers' party implemented social programs that is didn't millions of brazilians from poverty that memory has helped transfer some of lula's popularity to have died. especially on the industrial outskirts of sao paolo with the workers' party was born because it's thing where you through the p.t.s.d. parts of the working class that gave us dignity before dipping we had no access to credit cards we always took buses never an airplane. child living with ice doesn't know much about had that only whom he represents. had dads biggest strength is also his biggest weakness he needs the support of these workers who are part of

a lot of hard core support base but that means he can't this isn't some self from a former president who millions of other brazilians identify with his country's worst ever a corruption scandal. that himself is under investigation for taking illegal campaign contributions in two thousand and twelve a charge he denies and although he's regarded as a moderate within his left wing party it's a hard sell. i think a dog is no fool and would not be a toy in the hands of his mentor but right now he needs to stick to liz image to make it to the second round. but as his followers chant lula is her dad and her dad is lula the unlikely candidate has little time to convince the undecided that he wouldn't be the puppet of an imprisoned former president you see in human i just saw. a citywide ring gauge room project involving singing is

taking place in new york an elevated park known as the high line is the stage for a unique performance by the mile long opera group a thousand performers sing about changes taking place in society out as there is kristen salumi has more. the mile long opera consists of one thousand singers from all five boroughs of new york city and stretches through one of its newest and most popular parks. today called the high line it's built on what was formerly an elevated railroad track. the audience is invited to move between the clips and singers as you walk through on the high line the different stories you hear were inspired by interviews with new yorkers from all walks of life. there's no musical accompaniment just the sounds of the street i really want to make music out of all these a thousand people singing their own individual stories and they sing them very

quietly and if you walk by them you hear this kind of havens of all these things kind of colliding with each other and it sounds really beautiful and nice and at any moment when you're curious you can lean in close to one of the singers and hear what that individual story is and hear it a little better the land and. the performance is called the biography of seven o'clock up or be focusing on a time of day associated with change any night coming changes. seven o'clock is that time of the day that one equates with stability and the whole coming home to dad home and coming home to a dinner and this is very far from people's lives today but it's also this fantastic moment in the day where day turns into night where people change activities they go from work to something else. the city

serves as both backdrop and protagonist by walking. in a performance that reflects a changing society and a neighborhood that's literally been transformed by the park. from a rundown industrial zone to a present day magnet for tourism an investment and now a very unique setting for an urban opera christian salumi al jazeera new york. thanks. rises harvest take a look at the headlines here at al-jazeera the official death toll from last week's earthquake and tsunami stands at sixteen hundred fifty indonesian authorities have issued new warnings about the possible outbreak of disease with rescue workers continuing to find more bodies and body parts in the rubble we've had quite some

kitty reported from our medical team and keen problem we're at attempt himes are providing basic medical therapy to affected populations we're also doing campaign going to health and sanitation bringing you know awareness among the the affected population on what to do and what not to do indeed crikey through that you know there avoided from. the. president trying to speak for the u.s. supreme court is narrow the cleared a procedural vote in the senate a final vote on brett kavanaugh his confirmation is expected later on saturday republicans say an f.b.i. investigation didn't find any evidence to support sexual misconduct allegations against him police in france are investigating the disappearance of the president of interpol international policing agency mung way hasn't been heard of since he flew home to china late last month he was china's vice minister of public security

before he joined interpol. questions are being raised about the future of press freedom in hong kong after all storage is there refused to renew a work visa for a financial times journalist it's a rare decision in a chinese city that takes pride on its freedoms the newspaper's asia editor victor mallet chaired a talk by a pro independence activists at the foreign correspondents club in august he decided to go ahead with that moderating job despite objections from the hong kong government and the chinese foreign ministry. the u.s. secretary of state is in japan to coordinate strategy towards north korea after meeting prime minister shinzo rb mike is jude to go to pyongyang for more talks the us wants progress on denuclearization which it says the north agree the koreans agreed to when kim jong un and donald trump met in singapore in june this year all

right up today those are the latest headlines from us here at al-jazeera coming up next it's inside story. it sparked protests and social media campaigns the case of a judge accused of sexual misconduct but the u.s. president is standing by his supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh donald trump actually thinks the controversy could be a vote winner so how will it affect the upcoming midterm elections this is inside story.

hello and welcome to the program i'm homage i'm joined the brett kavanaugh case has divided america donald trump's pick for a lifetime job on the top u.s. court is accused of sexual misconduct there was already a lot at stake kavanagh's appointment would likely tipped the supreme court to the right with huge implications for a whole range of social cultural and political issues but there may be more immediate consequences at next month's midterm elections allegations that the judge sexually assaulted a student while at college have prompted angry protests with claims kavanagh's not fit to sit on america's highest court if that translates into votes in the november poll it could swing congress to the democrats undercutting trumps legislative agenda the controversy has prompted one former supreme court justice who initially backed kavanagh's nomination to change his mind john paul stevens now says kavanagh might not have the right temperament for the job. his performance during the

hearings caused me to change my murder i think there's several. taters larry tribe among loons of those two to open professor that have ever. heard of or have written written. pieces in which they suggest that he is alienated he has that demonstrated a potential bias and unearth a potential living in cebu for the court that he would not be able to perform his full full responsibilities that i think has merit in that that criticism in that the senators should really pay attention to it for the good of the court. so just how did we get here in july donald trump nominated brett kavanaugh to

replace retiring supreme court justice last month accusations against cavanagh by dr christine blazin ford surfaced in a washington post article she accused him of sexually assaulting her at a college party in the early one nine hundred eighty s. both ford and cavanaugh testified before the senate judiciary committee for detailed her claims kavanaugh tonight them the white house then gave the f.b.i. one week to investigate the agency's report was sent to the white house and the senate republicans are pressing ahead hoping to get cabinet installed before next month's midterm elections. all right now to our panel of guests in washington d.c. jeff houser executive director of the revolving door project at the center for economic and policy research rina shah conservative commentator and republican strategist and consultant and john f. injure a democratic strategist and former communications director at the at the democratic national committee welcome to you all in thanks for joining us today john let me start with you what does it say about the damage that this may have done or may do

to the reputation of the supreme court that former justice john paul stevens now says judge kavanaugh might not have the right temperament for the job. you know how to supreme court has always been political but it's important for the credibility of the court for the integrity of really our entire system of government that we be able to see them as our supreme court justices as people who do aspire to look beyond partisan fights and uphold a higher vision of the law what justice kavanagh did it his hearing last week literally threatening democratic senators saying what comes around goes around. is unprecedented unbelievable. cuse in him accusing democrats of of taking revenge for the clintons it really does politicize the court in a way that i don't think we've ever seen before and now trust in government is a more sacred thing for democrats in general they are the party that believes the

government should be able to get things done whereas republicans since ronald reagan have been dining out on this idea that the government can't get anything done so in a sense there's a larger benefit to the larger republican project but just in terms of the integrity of our court in the integrity of our government it could do immense damage arena had republicans or president trump with drawn this nomination would this fight from your perspective still be playing out the way that it is in most certainly wouldn't look when justice or said she was going through this very same process democrats supported him we know three democrats went through and voted for him and he had no such allegations of sexual misconduct arise i don't think it's too much to ask republicans in the senate to put forth a vote for somebody that doesn't have these allegations against him such as judge kavanaugh look this goes back to a problem here of the boys will be boys thing and it's something that sort of

arisen because of the me too movement here in the united states this the actions that judge cabin as being alleged to partake in or from when he was a teen and when he was clearly. young college guy of all places so this is something i'm really very saddened to see play out this way in twenty eight thousand i thought we would believe women and that we would probably put forth someone else jeff regardless of how this is playing out publicly privately how concerned are republican lawmakers about judge having lost him. unfortunately i think the bulk of them may not be that concerned i think that fred kavanagh was chosen by donald trump to be a partisan figure the fact that red cavaney was partisan was not revealed for the first time last week this is a man who was one of the senior lieutenants to ken starr in the one nine hundred ninety s. when bill clinton the impeachment effort against bill clinton was underway he

someone who was involved in the contested presidential election of two thousand as a lawyer he's been involved in partisan fights with democrats for more than twenty years in washington d.c. and president trump nominated brett kavanaugh knowing that there are potential constitutional crises coming down the line with robert mueller a special prosecution trump and his ties to russia and the twenty six you know action and various other fights and put up brett kavanaugh to be a partisan ally and i think the vast majority of republican senators were fine with that and his nomination was like it was going to pass up in intil these allegations arose and of course it still may all right president trump clearly doesn't think any of this will hurt his party's chances in november in fact he believes the controversy will actually benefit the republicans he tweeted the harsh and unfair treatment of judge brett kavanaugh is having an incredible upward impact on voters the people get it far better than the politicians most importantly this great life

cannot be ruined by mean and despicable democrats and totally uncorroborated allegations reno let me ask you what do you think when you hear that i mean at the beginning of this saga president trump seemed to be by his standard somewhat restrained he even said that the testimony that was offered by dr ford was credible now you see this onslaught you see this mockery and you see tweets like this. what does that say about where this process is. well number one nobody should be surprised that the fact that he mocked a woman who's alleging that she was assaulted sexually it's a very very low and despicable moment for the state of public affairs in this country when when we see this happening but when he was a candidate he mocked a disabled reporter so while i'm saddened by it i'm not surprised i will say this the president when he was a candidate and into the time he took the oval office to this day has nearly twenty allegations of sexual misconduct against him clearly he does not respect women

american voters who voted for president trump know this they have no problem with it they don't they have no problem with his massage any more than anything else and so when he took to the the rally pulpit last week and mocked her it was a moment where he sort of mobilized his base to say midterm elections matter to us get out and express how angry are with how this innocent man has been treated the the phrase that the right is using right now particularly women on the right are saying that cavanagh was not given due process what they are forgetting is that senate judiciary committee hearings are not a court of law and while they say they believe dr ford that they're not sure that she was a able to corroborate and essentially prove that it was brett kavanaugh who assaulted her and that's what president trump railed against saying that she basically could not be trusted and wasn't credible where is just a few days prior he tweeted saying she was credible he's a flip flopper john there are democratic lawmakers who have been suggesting that

judge kavanaugh may have perjured himself not just in this round of testimony but in previous rounds of testimony for the confirmation of of other judges if if there is this blue wave in november if democrats were to retake the house and possibly even the senate even though there's a much narrower path to that and many are saying it's unlikely sure do you believe that democratic lawmakers would try to open more investigations into judge kavanaugh and possibly even have him impeached. yeah absolutely i don't think the likelihood of him being impeached in this climate in the sense sorry impeachment is a is a funny term and with this comes up with the present trump and now with judge kavanaugh because the vote to impeach to get the process underway i think very well could happen because i think the democratic base would demand it of people this is not just a political moment anymore this is a cultural moment we have been yahoos dads who believe something like forty million american women who have been the victim of sexual violence and so this is personal

in a way that we don't see most political issues playing out so yes i do think he has given lots of testimony that conflicts with documentary evidence i do think you could see that pursued although because of the tribalism that we see no matter how big this blue wave is mathematically you're going to need republicans in the senate to be able to actually remove someone whether it's cavanagh or trump from office and i don't see that necessarily happening very easily although you know with with conclusive proof of of lying maybe maybe you could price couple republicans off to jeff let me ask you when it comes to the midterms do you see all this play more favorably to the advantage of the democrats at this point or the republicans. i think the conventional wisdom is that it's going to be mixed and it sort of depends on the nature of the race and who are the key voters republicans have been saying since this began that their base is enthusiastic and that there is going to be

higher turnout i don't think democrats were expecting to win because republicans failed to vote i think they were more democrats were expecting to win because their base which tends to not vote in midterm elections tends to only vote in presidential elections was in fact excited so i think you're going to see both bases performing well the big question remains how is this going to be seen by those voters who maybe are traditionally republican but are turned off by trump and i would think that ultimately speaking those more moderate republican voters are going to potentially vote democratic now because brett kavanaugh. underscoring the qualms they may have about donald trump as a person and because he personify so many of the same problems with treating women not only respectfully but of avoiding physical assault so i think in the end it might help.